Hoop-stay for buckets



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. W. S. POLLITT.

HOOP STAY FOR BUGKETS, m. No. 415,793. Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

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WITNESSES. l/VVE/VTUR 041. BY M ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM S. POLLITT, OF ORESTED BUTTE, COLORADO.

HOOP-STAY FOR BUCKETS, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,793, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed March 5, 1889. Serial No. 301,949. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SEDDON POL- LITT, of Crested Butte, in the county of Gunnison and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful IIoopStay for Buckets and Similar Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in hoop-stays for buckets, tubs, barrels, and other vessels bound together and strengthened by hoops, and has for its object to provide a device capable of retaining the hoops in proper position should the wood shrink by reason of the vessel becoming dry, and wherein the hoops may be tightened, when occasion may require, in a convenient and expeditious manner.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of refer ence indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bucket, partly in section, having my improvement applied thereto. Fig; 2 is a perspective view of the stay detached. Fig. 3 is a partial horizontal'section through the stay and a partially-horizontal section through the bucket above the lower hoop. Fig. 4,-is apartial side elevation of the lower hoop at the point of contact with the stay. Fig. 5 is a side elevae tion of a tub having my invention applied thereto. -Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the stay detached from the tub. Fig. 7 illustrates the invention applied to a barrel or keg, and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the form of stay employed in connection with the said barrel or keg.

The stay consists of a strip of metal 10, having one smooth side face, and a series of lugs or brackets 11, produced upon the outer side face, which lugs or brackets are preferably arranged in pairs, one lug of each pair being about the width of a hoop below the other, and each bracket is provided with a horizontal flat upper face a and a downwardly-inclined outer face a, as best illustrated in Figs.

2, 6, and 8. At the bottom of the stay, 110wever, a single bracket only is preferably employed. The number of pairs of brackets produced upon the strip 10 is equal to the number of hoops carried by the vessel to which the stay is to be attached.

In attaching the stay the body of the vessel is provided with a vertical recess upon the outer face at opposite sides, in which the strip 10, constituting the body of the stay, is inserted to sucha depth that the outer smooth side of the stay will be flush with the outer surface of the vessel.

The stay is usually made of sufficient length to extend from the bottom of the vessel to within a distance of the top, preferably at the point at which the bail is ordinarily secured.

In attaching the hoops 12 to the bucketfor instance, illustrated in Fig. 1the upper hoop is driven upward and made to rest upon the lower bracket 11 of the upper pair, and the second hoop is made to rest in like manner upon the lower bracket of the second pair, as shown in said Fig. 1. The lower hoop, however, at the point of contact with the stay is provided with a recess 13 in the under side, whereby the lower bracket, which is at the bottom of the stay, engages with the upper wall of the recess 13, and the lower edge of the lower hoop may thereby be carried downward flush with the bottom edge of the staves 14, of which the bucket is constructed.

The stay is attached to the bucket or other vessel to which it may be applied by means of screws, nails, or equivalent fastening devices, as illustrated at 15 in Fig. 1. The lower nail or screw is preferably made to pass through the lower hoop in addition to passing through the stay and the staves of the vessel.

When the device is to be used in connection with a bucket or equivalent vessel carried by means of a bail 16, the eye- 17, to which the said bail is attached, constitutes an integral portion of the stay and projects horizontally from the outer face, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated the application of the stay to a tub, in which it will be ob served that the upper end of the stay is divided, and the members 18 are carried in a curved line in opposite directions, and upon the outer face of each of the members 18, near the extremity, an eye 19 is formed capable of receiving the extremities of the side bails 20, constituting the handles of the tub.

In Fig. 7 I have shown the application of the device to a keg or barrel. \Vhen the device is thus employed, it is made of sufficient length to extend from top to bottom, and the extremities are bent downward and inward, as illustrated at 21 in Fig. 8, to form hooks capable of clamping the chines. The arrangement of the lugs or brackets in this form of device differs from the arrangement heretofore described, inasmuch as the fiat faces of the two brackets are made to face one another at the center, as shown at 22, to receive between them the central hoop 23, and the flat bearing-faces of the brackets above the center, which are arranged singly, are made to face downward, and the equivalent surfaces of the brackets below the center are faced upward. Thus the lower hoops rest upon the lower brackets and the upper hoops bear against the upper brackets.

I desire it to be distinctly understood that any suitable metal may be employed in constructin g the hoop-stays, and that the brackets may be formed otherwise than shown, provided a flat or essentially fiat contact is presented to the hoop. When the hoops are supported by the brackets, as illustrated, it is evident that should the wood constituting the staves shrink by reason of the vessel becoming dry it will be impossible for the said hoops to fall from their places, and by reason of the lugs or brackets being arranged in pairs,

should it become necessary to tighten the hoops they may be forced in the direction of the top of the vessel to rest upon the upper bracket, instead of the lower one.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a vessel having vertically-extendin g grooves in its outer side, of metallic strips in said grooves flush with the outer surface of the vessel and provided with lugs having inclined outer faces and hoops surrounding the vessel and resting against the shoulders formed by said lugs, substantially as set forth.

2. A stay for the hoops of buckets, tubs, and similar vessels, consisting of a strip of metal having brackets arranged in pairs and projected from the outer face, substantially as shown and described.

3. A stay for the hoops of buckets, tubs,

and similar vessels, which consists of a strip of metal having pairs of lugs or brackets projected from the outer side, said brackets having an inclined outer face, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. A stay for the hoops of buckets, tubs, and similar vessels, which consists of a strip of metal having brackets or lugs produced upon the outer side, arranged in pairs, and provided with an inclined outer face, and an eye or equivalent device secured to the upper end of the strip, adapted to receive the handle or bail of the vessel, substantially as shown and described.

5. A stay for the hoops of buckets, tubs, and similar vessels, which consists of-a strip of metal having a single bracket projected from the outer face at the bottom and brackets arranged in pairs above the base-bracket, each bracket provided with an inclined outer face, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. The combination, with a bucket, tub, or

similar vessel having grooves produced in the outer face, of a hoop-stay consisting of a strip of metal inserted in the said grooves, having a single bracket projected outward from the bottom, provided with an inclined outer face, and similar brackets arranged in pairs above the said base-bracket, and an eye or similar device integral with the upper end of the strip, capable of receiving the ends of the bail or handle, substantially as shown and described.

'7. The combination, with a bucket, tub, or similar vessel provided with grooves in the outer face and a hoop-stay inserted in the said grooves, consisting of a strip of metal having brackets produced upon the outer face, of hoops surrounding the vessel and supported upon the said brackets, the lower hoop provided with a recess in the under surface at its point of intersection with the lower bracket of the stay, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM S. POLLITT. Witnesses:

A. BRAY, THEo. LELAND. 

